>FYI, there is nothing that says markets have to linear or non-linear.
>
>Steve
my understanding is that the condition of being organic is a necessary
(though not sufficient) condition for being considered to be alive....
bryan
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Friday, December 04, 1998 11:56 PM
Subject: Re: Is Altruism consistent with environmentalsim?
>FYI, there is nothing that says markets have to linear or non-linear.
>
>Steve
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>---John Foster wrote:
>>
>> That's because natural systems are billions of years old and are not
>> necessarily linear as are made made systems.
>>
>> jf
>>
>> There are buffers everywhere!
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>>
>> At 11:04 04/12/98 -0800, you wrote:
>> >---John Foster <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> >> "A geophysical system always begins with the action of an
>individual
>> >> organism. If the this action happens to be locally beneficial to
>the
>> >> environement, then it can spread until eventually a global altruism
>> >results.
>> >> Gaia always operates like this to achieve her altruism. There is no
>> >> foresight and planning involved." James Lovelock In_Biodiveristy.
>> >Edited by
>> >> E.O. Wilson, National Academy of Science.
>> >
>> >
>> >Boy, and people say economists are being optimistic about how the
>> >market is beneficial and requires no centralized planning. Sheesh.
>> >
>> >Steve
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